Download or read book Naked written by Brian Hoffman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.
Download or read book American Nudist Culture written by Larry Darter and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An objective, straightforward explanation of what American nudist culture is really about. Whether a person is just curious about what actually goes on inside nudist clubs and resorts or someone thinking about trying Nudism that needs more information before taking the plunge, the book answers many common questions and dispels many of the myths surrounding the nudist lifestyle. Are nudists actually the eccentric weirdos, perverts and hedonists that many Americans believe them to be? What kind of people become nudists and why do they choose the nude lifestyle? This objective, straightforward look at American nudist culture answers these questions and more. The book aims to foster better understanding of one of the most misunderstood and unfairly maligned cultures in American society by answering common questions and dispelling some of the persistent myths that surround the nudist and naturist lifestyle.
Download or read book The North American Guide to Nude Recreation written by American Sunbathing Association and published by Elysium Growth Press. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Nudist written by Tony Young and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a how-to book. More than a nude beach update. "American Nudist" is the story of a Hawaii- born nudist's unique life, his personal and political struggles and the creative work that resulted. "American Nudist" collects journalist/filmmaker Tony Young's published and unpublished articles on the naturist lifestyle written during his college years, chronicles his experiences organizing the Hawaii Skinnydippers in the mid-1990s, along with his controversial poetry and short stories. All this and a nude beach guide to the Hawaiian Islands.According to Photographer/Producer Clinton H. Wallace's introduction, this book is "a spiritual quest, full of triumphs and failures, the ultimate significance of Young's journal resides not only in his contribution to our knowledge of the nudist lifestyle but reminds us how incomplete that knowledge is."Second Edition, Revised and Updated for 2016
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Download or read book North American Guide to Nude Recreation written by American Sunbathing Association and published by American Association for Nude Recreation. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nude recreation is currently one of the fastest growing pastimes in the United States, yet there's nothing new about it. People throughout Europe have been enjoying this refreshing & stress-free form of vacationing for decades. In the NORTH AMERICAN GUIDE TO NUDE RECREATION you'll find information on a wide variety of clubs located all over the country. They range from luxury resorts to rustic campgrounds & attract people from all walks of life. All who go there have one thing in common--they respect the human body & love the out-of-doors. The remarkable photography of Jerry Derbyshire & others create a stunning documentary on nude recreation. The text provides detailed information on family nudist parks, clubs & beaches in the United States & Canada. A perfect guide for those looking for a new kind of vacation destination. Phone: 800/879-6833; FAX: 407/933-7577.
Download or read book American Nudist written by Tony Young and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a how-to book. More than a nude beach update. "American Nudist" is the story of a Hawaii- born nudist's unique life, his personal and political struggles and the creative work that resulted. "American Nudist" collects journalist/filmmaker Tony Young's articles on the naturist lifestyle, chronicles his experiences organizing the Hawaii Skinnydippers in the 1990s, along with his controversial poetry and short stories.
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Download or read book Naked written by Brian S. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.--Book jacket.
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Download or read book Free and Natural written by Sarah Schrank and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Naked Juice® to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a "free and natural" lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies—and those of society at large—from overwork, environmental toxins, illness, conformity to body standards, and the hyper-sexualization of the consumer economy. How did the naked body come to be associated with "naturalness," and how has this notion influenced American culture? Free and Natural explores the cultural history of nudity and its impact on ideas about the body and the environment from the early twentieth century to the present. Sarah Schrank traces the history of nudity, especially public nudity, across the unusual eras and locations where it thrived—including the California desert, Depression-era collectives, and 1950s suburban nudist communities—as well as the more predictable beaches and resorts. She also highlights the many tensions it produced. For example, the blurry line between wholesome nudity and sexuality became impossible to sustain when confronted by the cultural challenges of the sexual revolution. Many longtime free and natural lifestyle enthusiasts, fatigued by decades of legal battles, retreated to private homes and resorts while the politics of gay rights, sexual liberation, environmentalism, and racial equality of the 1970s inspired a new generation of radical advocates of public nudity. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Schrank demonstrates, a free and natural lifestyle that started with antimaterialist, back-to-the-land rural retreats had evolved into a billion-dollar wellness marketplace where "Naked™" sells endless products promising natural health, sexual fulfilment, organic food, and hip authenticity. Free and Natural provides an in-depth account of how our bodies have become tethered so closely to modern ideas about nature and identity and yet have been consistently subjected to the excesses of capitalism.
Download or read book A Brief History of Nakedness written by Philip Carr-Gomm and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and society. In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated and complex emotional responses. From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies.
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